Fabio Viale
IN BETWEEN

Description

The prestigious volume documents the exhibition “In Between” by the artist Fabio Viale, which took place in the Royal Museums of Turin: a real incursion of contemporary art within one of the most prestigious universal museums in Italy, which its collections bear witness to much of the history of European art and the social and political history of the country.
The director of the Royal Museums of Turin, Enrica Pagella, writes in the introduction: “The exhibition ‘In Between’ is an arc stretched between past and future, between tradition and experimentation. A past that shows itself in the recognized and recognizable forms of some masterpieces of great sculpture of all time, from classical antiquity to Canova, explored and reproduced with the use of digital technologies; a present that with tattoos inscribes into the material stories that belong to the global world, with the story of oppressed or lost traditions and identities, new myths and new languages, the eternal questioning of the meaning of emotions and feelings that constitute the connective tissue of human communities. A sort of counterpoint to everything that the museum stages: an ‘inside’ made of beauty and inspiration, an ‘outside’ where the fluid life of everyday reality pulsates. Through the keys of wonder, technical virtuosity and creative reinterpretation, the art of Fabio Viale pushes us to look with new eyes at the meaning of the museum, a democratic, open place, permeable to the most diverse experiences around the theme of cultural heritage ; that synthesis of temple and forum hoped for in 1971 by the famous Canadian museologist Duncan Cameron, today made up of spaces that expand infinitely in digital networks, where thousands of virtual visitors have shared reasoning and thoughts around the exhibition.”.
The volume was created thanks to the Poggiali Gallery (Florence – Milan – Pietrasanta).